A few more wedding pix

Mike and I had dinner with our friends Sue and Chris the other night. Sue had some pictures on her phone that she sent to me, from the wedding. Here's a few:

Walking back down the aisle, Mr and Mrs!

Mike and me, the other "Mr and Mrs Pastore." 

So much joy

I celebrate my 64th birthday

Katherine took me to our favorite Japanese restaurant, "Aki." We both got Bento lunches. So good!

Flowers from the kids. I also got candy and gift cards, including on for Joann's from Mike I will surely enjoy using! 

The one from the kids is for Bed, Bath and Beyond. I used some of it for a 'flip and fold' laundry doo-hickey that makes it easy to fold shirts. And fun!

Lunch at Aki was the day before my birthday because Katherine was going on a ski trip to Pennsylvania, which was booked before she realized it was my birthday. So I got to celebrate 2x!

Michael made me some really goooood lasagna. It is now in his recipe book under the name "Mom's Birthday Lasagna." 

All in all, a great birthday.

Even More Decor

More Decorating

Decorating Our Tree

Mike and Michael set up the lights.

Baking Cookies, Finding Our Tree

I made about 10 different kinds of cookies and candy this year. New cookie was Pecan Toffee Shortbread, yum!

Katherine and I made Spritz Cookies:

Katherine likes Instagram Filters. I think we are supposed to be Math Nerds (cute ones)!


We looked for our annual tree and found a really nice one:

Trees are getting expensive.This one cost almost $50! (So we kept it up a few more days than we usually do.) But it was a very pretty one.

Thanksgiving 2019

Here are some pictures of the Thanksgiving we celebrated at John and Nor's. Alas, Nick had to be at work but my other kids were there.

Michael and Megan's First Thanksgiving as a married couple. Megan made a delicious apple cake that was like a giant cinnamon roll!

John Joseph and his uncle Mike (Nor's brother) check out some of the delicious desserts we had.

Katherine and Jamie. I told Jamie he always

 looks like he's deep in thought.

Zach is such a sweet dog we couldn't resist treating him. He especially likes carrots!